LEADER 04392nam 22006975 450 001 9910785305103321 005 20220415023531.0 010 $a1-283-05824-3 010 $a9786613058249 010 $a0-226-30682-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226306827 035 $a(CKB)2670000000065851 035 $a(EBL)648134 035 $a(OCoLC)695994968 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471582 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12159911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471582 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10428128 035 $a(PQKB)10594555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648134 035 $a(DE-B1597)524360 035 $a(OCoLC)1058909223 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226306827 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000065851 100 $a20200424h20102010 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Natural History of the New World $eThe Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas /$fAlan Graham 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (404 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-30680-1 311 0 $a0-226-30679-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Getting Started --$t2. Location, Location, Location --$t3. Floods, Temperature, Evolution, and It's about Time --$t4. How Do They Do That? --$t5. Early On: Middle Cretaceous through the Early Eocene --$t6. Transition: Middle Eocene through the Early Miocene --$t7. Modernizing: Middle Miocene through the Pliocene --$t8. Latest Touch: The Great Ice Ages --$t9. The Bigger Picture: Implications of Past Environmental Changes in the New World --$t10. Pole to Pole: A Walk over the Landscape, a Walk through Time --$tEpilogue --$tIndex 330 $aThe paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a complete natural history. Alan Graham remedies that with A Natural History of the New World. With plants as his scientific muse, Graham traces the evolution of ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period (about 100 million years ago) and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate. By highlighting plant communities' roles in the environmental history of the Americas, Graham offers an overdue balance to natural histories that focus exclusively on animals. Plants are important in evolution's splendid drama. Not only are they conspicuous and conveniently stationary components of the Earth's ecosystems, but their extensive fossil record allows for a thorough reconstruction of the planet's paleoenvironments. What's more, plants provide oxygen, function as food and fuel, and provide habitat and shelter; in short, theirs is a history that can speak to many other areas of evolution. A Natural History of the New World is an ambitious and unprecedented synthesis written by one of the world's leading scholars of botany and geology. 606 $aPaleobotany$zAmerica$yTertiary 606 $aPaleobotany$zAmerica$yCretaceous 606 $aPaleobotany$zAmerica$yCenozoic 606 $aPlant ecology$zAmerica 606 $aPlants$xEvolution$zAmerica 606 $aPlants, Fossil$zAmerica 610 $aecology, ecological, evolution, evolutionary, biology, biological, science, scientific, plants, americas, natural history, historical, new world, vegetation, paleoecology, paleoecological, ecosystems, geology, climate, community, environment, environmental, environmentalism, fossils, botany, botanists, paleobotany, ice ages, time periods, landscapes, eocene, cretaceous, miocene, pliocene. 615 0$aPaleobotany 615 0$aPaleobotany 615 0$aPaleobotany 615 0$aPlant ecology 615 0$aPlants$xEvolution 615 0$aPlants, Fossil 676 $a561.097 700 $aGraham$b Alan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0351609 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785305103321 996 $aA Natural History of the New World$93678833 997 $aUNINA